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"I've been interested to know why grammar checking and corrections can't be more accurate."

It's because there is no such a thing as 'grammar' :)

There is no such a thing as 'language' :)

Ok, I misrepresented that a little - but there is no such thing as a 'word list of all the English words and proper names'. And there definitely no set of clear grammatical rules for English. For some languages - such as German - the rules are more precise, but even then.

So what you end up with is a game of probability and a lot of risk of 'over-correction' (beta errors).

Context matters a lot as well - multilingual speakers, casual typers.

Go to a rap video on youtube and look at the comments. People are arguably not even writing English.




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